I may be an expatriate St. Louisan, but I'm a Cardinal Fan Forever. Mostly, I write haiku recaps of every game. Occasionally, I write longer stuff with pictures.

That’s a Winner!

I think I have to write it down to believe it.

The St. Louis Cardinals are the 2006 World Champions!

What a game! What a series! Man, do I wish I was in St. Louis and partying on the hurricane-red-soaked cobblestone streets of Laclede’s Landing. Go Crazy, Folks. Go freakin’ crazy.

I do want to take a moment to congratulate the Tigers on a terrific year. I am sure they will be right back in the hunt next season. I think they were just not quite ready for the pressure of the world series. Our poise came from our past playoff experience. I really think that made the difference.

You could tell from the first game of the division series that this team just really wanted it. They were going to do whatever it took to win, and they weren’t going to give up. If the opponent got a run in their half of the inning, they’d come right back and tie it in their own half. Everyone on the team contributed and raised their game. Pitchers who looked mortal during the season became world beaters. A catcher who batted .216 became the NLCS MVP. Fans started wearing fake red soul patches in honor of a bench player who came up big. Everyone said that Pujols carried the team, and for a lot of the year he did, but we won this series without Albert really being a factor. And we did it with the shortest MVP in world series history!

There’s a lot more to say, but for now it’s just time for Cardinal Nation to revel in this moment. Thanks to Tony and the fellas for an unforgettable season.

Glad I came across CardinalGirl blog. Excellent coverage, especially the “live” broadcasts. Keep up the good work! It will be interesting to see how management takes all the pieces and puts them together for 2007!

Carpenter, Suppan, Weaver, Reyes, a healthy Mulder, and who was that in a Cardinal hat? Buerhle? Could give us the best 6 man rotation ever!!! Oh, forgot about Adam Wainwright.

Going to be interesting, and not going to make everybody happy, but for now, I’m just happy wearing my Cardinal stuff around here and accepting congrats from all the Cubs and Sox fans!

i live in yankee and boston red sox country actually arizona but i cant believe how many fans are fans of either the red sox or the yankees here.my al team is the red sox jut cuz i was born there.http://kaylee-wwwtheworldaccordingtokaylee.blogspot.com if you click on View profile on the righthand side you will get my cards blog if the link pulls p my red sox one

I thought it was one of the worse played World Series ever (Eight errors and eight unearned runs in five games). Isn’t anyone worried about the quality of play in baseball? How did these two bad teams get to the World Series in the first place?

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